Sharon Slater, American anti-gay activist and president of Family Watch International, recently encouraged delegates attending a law conference in Lagos, Nigeria to resist the United Nations’ calls to decriminalize homosexuality. Keynoting the Nigerian Bar Association Conference, Slater told delegates that they would lose their religious and parental rights if they supported “fictitious sexual rights.” One such “fictitious right” is the right to engage in same-sex sexual relationships without going to jail.

In the face of media reports that Ghana’s Western Region Minister recently called for the arrest of gays, a Ghanaian government source told me today that the government was not “clamping down” on sexual minorities. The source, who did not want to be named since he was not…